Halloween and pumpkin patches
January 2, 2010 Leave a comment
Amount of pumpkin patches lost each year.
Every year people participate in that late October tradition… the slaughtering of the pumpkin species for Halloween. Every year people gather pumpkins they don’t plan to eat, cut out their innards, and display their flaming corpse for all to see. People take slaughtering pumpkins so seriously that they have knives made specially for cutting pumpkins. When people are done carving their pumpkins for Halloween, they either eat the pumpkin seeds or throw them away in a garbage bags to ensure that they will never grow into a new pumpkin.
Every year for Halloween people cut down an area of pumpkin patches equal to the size of Rode Island. The loss of those pumpkins patches decreases the overall oxygen supply on earth and drives dozens of species to the verge of extinction that are dependent on the pumpkin patches’ nutrients and shelter. Some people believe that pumpkin populations are safe and that people are doing a good job preserving the pumpkin species.
But let me ask you this. When was the last time you saw a wild pumpkin growing in the wild?
The pumpkin version of deforestation.
